Holocaust Forgotten - Five Million Non-Jewish Victims
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Eleven million people were killed in the Holocaust. Almost six million of these were Jewish - Hitler's most recognized victims. But, five million were not Jewish. Who were these other victims?
The author, a Jewish convert of Polish Catholic descent, whose uncle was murdered by Nazi soldiers, discovered that there are many non-Jewish survivors eager to share their stories. There are hundreds of children of these survivors who have been searching for a voice - an opportunity to finally be counted. This book defines the non-Jewish Holocaust victims with actual interviews and stories contributed by survivors
Terese Pencak Schwartz
Born in Wildfecken, Germany - in a displaced persons camp after the Second World War, Ms. Schwartz emigrated to the U.S.A. with her parents and younger sister when she was two years old. She was raised in Michigan, and attended Michigan State University where she studied journalism and communication arts. She moved to California in her early twenties, where she married and raised a family. Schwartz began doing research on the subject of non-Jewish Holocaust victims after she converted to Judaism, and in 1997 she published a highly acclaimed website, www.holocaustforgotten.com. Ms. Schwartz is also an artist and fine art photographer, and a juried member of the Thousand Oaks Art Association. The history of the Holocaust - especially related to the non-Jewish victims, continues to be of great interest to her. She is currently working on a second and more expanded volume on the non-Jewish victims.
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Holocaust Forgotten - Five Million Non-Jewish Victims - Terese Pencak Schwartz
Holocaust Forgotten - Five Million Non-Jewish Victims
By: Terese Pencak Schwartz
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Copyright 2012 Terese Pencak Schwartz
4607 Lakeview Canyon Rd., Suite 367
Westlake Village, California 91361
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Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 - Five Million Forgotten
Chapter 2 - Who Were the Others - the Non-Jewish Victims?
Polish Non-Jews - Hitler's First Target
Jehovah Witnesses - For Their Religious Beliefs - They Stood Firm
Rom Gypsies - Executed for Their Race
Afro-Europeans - Sterilization and Humiliation
Homosexuals - Tagged and Tortured
The Disabled - Put to Death Like Cats and Dogs
Nazi Resisters from All Nations - Men, Women and Children
Chapter 3 - Resistance Fighter from the Underground
Chapter 4 - Dutch Teenager in Holland
Chapter 5 - The Diary of Number 1067
Chapter 6 - American Citizen and Holocaust Survivor
Chapter 7 - Kidnapped and Deported
Chapter 8 - French Survivor of Nordhuesen
Chapter 9 - Righteous Gentiles - Heroes and Heroines of the Holocaust
Chapter 10 - Jan Karski - Masterpiece of Courage
Chapter 11 - Zegota: Polish Secret Organization
Irena Sendler a.k.a, Irena Sendlerowa
Chapter 12 - She Hid Jews in a German Officer's Mansion
Chapter 13 - Fake Epidemic Saves a Village
Chapter 14 - Dutch Doctor and Member of the Underground
Chapter 15 - The Legacy for the Next Generation
Bibliography
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Foreword
Every semester, I ask my university students, What was the first and last group of people the Nazis mass murdered?
They are confident of their reply. The Jews,
they say, without hesitation. Some, adopting an air that indicates that they imagine themselves privy to information others lack, report Homosexuals,
or Communists.
No one ever gets it correct. I ask others, as well, including the PhDs among my colleagues. They don't know, either. The first and last group that the Nazis murdered was handicapped people. When I tell my interlocutors this, they are shocked. They assume I am wrong. They promise me that they will Google this question. How could they be so misinformed about something so important?
It makes perfect sense for the Nazis to have mass murdered handicapped people first and last. That mass murder is entirely in line with Nazi ideology. The Nazis, as Richard Weikart demonstrated in Hitler's Ethic: The Nazi Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress,
founded their genocides on a consistent ethic. Their ethic was inspired by atheism, neo-Paganism, and Scientific Racism. Their ethic was voiced before Hitler ever rose to power, by the Scientific Racists in the U.S. who reacted with horror to new, undesirable, peasant immigrants from places like Poland and Italy.
We need to understand Nazism, and we will not do so until as many people who know the number six million
also know the number five million.
We need to know that the five million were not killed by accident
but very much in line with Nazi ideology. It is difficult to penetrate this thicket of hostility to the story of the Nazi victimization of non-Jews, but Terese Pencak Schwartz has done so, admirably. Terese Pencak Schwartz is a heroine in this battle for truth and understanding. Her success is to every one's benefit; without the kind of information that she insists on presenting, we cannot begin to understand what we do know of the Nazis, or of the Holocaust.
Danusha V. Goska, PhD
To my beloved mother, Ewa Pencak, whose legacy I inherited, and to my dearly loved daughter, Sophia Eve Schwartz, who will become heir to it.
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Acknowledgements
In addition to the contributors who have allowed me to include their stories in this book:
John Millrany
Grace de Ronde
Susan Ost Perrone
Zygfryd P. Baginski
Joseph S. Wardzala
Michel Depierre and Peter Branton
Curtis M. Urness, Sr.
Ryan Bank
There have been many others whose efforts and encouragement made this work possible including: Prof. Dr. Zdzislaw P. Wesolowski, Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis, Edward Lucaire, Stefan